Why is so much special interest money flowing into a California special election?

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The fourth biggest spending committee in the south San Diego Assembly race, and certainly the most mysterious one, is called San Diego Families Opposing Georgette Gomez. Major funders to the committee are neither families nor from San Diego

, a small business owner who narrowly lost his race for San Diego mayor in 2014 and shared the city council dais with Gómez.

But the race has taken on supersized proportions. And that’s only partially because the district was recently represented by the state’s best known union ally. , as the state’s Republican party has descended into near political irrelevance, labor and business have poured money into Democratic-leaning districts where the choice is not between Republican red and Democratic blue, but moderate periwinkle and progressive navy. Often these are the“We don’t want a seat held by a working peoples’ champion ending up going to someone who is in the pocket of big business.

 

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